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Man Leaves His Estate To Actors He Never Met! One Being EX-Y&R's Peter Barton!
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In a bizarre story, Ray Fulk willed his estate to two actors he never met, leaving them an estimated half a million dollars each. Fulk was 71 when he died last July. He lived alone on a 160-acre property in Lincoln, Ill. that he inherited from his father. He had no family or children. What Fulk did have was an admiration for actors Kevin Brophy and Peter Barton, whom he had never met. He admired them so much that he left his estate to be split between them.
According to Yahoo! News, Donald Behle, an estate attorney, said he helped prepare Fulk’s will around 1998, and never saw him again. Behle had helped with the estate of Fulk’s father, who died in 1997.
As to why Fulk will his estate to the two actors? “He just said they were friends of his,” Behle said, who knew they were actors but did not know Fulk had never met them. Behle is not sure why he considered them friends, but the State Journal-Register newspaper of Springfield, Ill., says he was a fan of their television shows. Barton is known for his role as Dr. Scott Grainger in the soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1987 to 1993. Brophy was in the 1977 show Lucan. Fulk had a poster from the show on the wall of his house, according to the State Journal-Register.
Behle is currently overseeing the sale of Fulk’s property, which is appraised at $1,054,000. After Fulk died, Brophy and Barton received letters informing them of the bequest. The two are friends who had acted in the film Hell Night in 1981. They could not be reached for comment. Barton actually visited Lincoln and Behle to see if the letter was real, Behle said. “His reaction was disbelief,” Behle said. “What would yours be?” Behle said he enjoyed meeting Barton and giving him a tour of the property, except for the home.
“His house was an absolute filthy mess. We wore masks when we were in there,” Behle said. The only other bequest he left was to the Anti-Cruelty Society, an animal organization in Chicago. “He loved animals,” Behle said, though he said he doesn’t know if Fulk was affiliated with the organization.
Ok soapers, if you had a will, would you name any of your favorite soap opera stars in it? And if so, who? What do you think of the story of Ray Fulk’s decision to leave his estate to Scott Barton and Kevin Brophy? Weigh-in!
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That’s wild, I’m sure those actors are loving this!
That’s way out there.
I wouldn’t name any soap stars in my will – I have children and grandchildren.
Why cant i be so lucky?
Why cant stuff like this happen to me?
I guess Ray didn’t have any relatives he wanted to leave his estate too and maybe these two actors gave him a lot of joy via their performances. I think I would probably leave more to charities than strangers. But I guess Ray felt he knew them in some way. Sure is crazy!
Ray didn’t have any running water and bathed in a creek!!! Okay, he should have used some of his money to add mod cons to his house. I don’t understand people who live in squalor and then when they die you find out they were millionaires. Maybe his money was tied up in his house/land, but he should have sold and bought himself a nice little place.
Nutjob!
I guess Peter was a Boytoy, without having to submit. 😉
LOL…..
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this is neither here nor there….
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I’ve never had the honour of meeting peter barton, but I’ve heard only nice things about him. I find it insulting to call peter a boy toy. . U are an idiot
No comment…… Lol
Not on your life would I do something like that. My fantasies will never go that deep. Like the lady said: I have my own family to think about………..As sure as the world continue to be in existence there will be stranger things to happen. Nothing ceases to amaze me. Like mom always said: Just keep on living! You ain’t seen nothing yet!
This man must have felt a connection to the shows these actors were on. Shows you watch for a long time tend to make you feel like you know the characters and are part of something. It’s a little sad because the man had no other family. I hope the actors accept the inheritance and do something good with it, even just a portion of the money could set up a trust to help a good cause.